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Re: no holding disk & degraded mode

2006-08-17 11:26:27
Subject: Re: no holding disk & degraded mode
From: Cyrille Bollu <Cyrille.Bollu AT fedasil DOT be>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:20:33 +0200


owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org a écrit sur 17/08/2006 15:03:28 :

> On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 10:29:46AM +0200, Cyrille Bollu wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm running a configuration without holding disk. Well, there's one
> > defined actually but none of my DLE use it.
> >
> ...
> >
> > However, I have enough place to store a few degraded backups should it be
> > needed. And I would like to take advantage of the degraded mode while
> > keeping my "holdingdisk no" option
> >
> > Is there something else I have to configure or is this an intended
> > behaviour of Amanda?
>
> holdingdisk   yes


Yes, but I don't want (for the moment) to use the holding disk during regular backups; it's on the same RAID5 logical drive as the data to be backuped. So, using the holding disk would means 2 reads and 1 write during regular backups instead of 1 read.

Cyrille
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